Top 5 Videos of 2011!

2011 has been another incredible year for action sports, with a huge amount of highs, but equally several incredibly low points. In at number five is this video from Nitro Circus Live. It was an epic show and had 15 (that's fifteen!) world firsts in, including the first ever double-double backflip! In at number 4 is Chad Reed's HUGE crash at Millville, these MX riders are made of tough stuff... Jackson Strong lands a Front Flip at X Games 17! Ken Block, Nate Adams and Bilko at the Gymkhana World Tour! Without a doubt our video of the year, Unit's Jed Mildon lands a TRIPLE backflip! It's a year where we lost far too many superstars of our sports, and we'll finish up by remembering them. Marco Simoncelli - MotoGP Dan Wheldon - Indycar Dane Searls - Dirt Jump Jeff "Ox" Kargola - FMX Jim McNeil - FMX

British Superbike rider Michael Laverty happy to help with the Christmas rush at FreestyleXtreme!

Have you ever wondered how a British Superbike rider passes his time during the off season? 2007 British Supersport Champion and 2011 top 5 Superbike Championship rider Michael Laverty showed some festive goodwill by helping out the packing team at Action Sports retailer FreestyleXtreme for the Christmas rush. With a record amount of parcels demanding delivery before Christmas Day, FreestyleXtreme needed somebody with a speedy reputation to help the Bristol-based family business ‘pick and pack’ some of the thousands of Christmas gifts due to be sent out. “Motorsport and Action Sports clothing and apparel may be our business but it’s our passion too. Whenever we can we like to help riders and up-and-coming future stars so every now and then we can call in a favour to help lend us a hand!” said FreestyleXtreme Director Jeff Loughlin “I had some time to spare before the start of the 2012 season and came to Freestyle to do a spot of shopping. Next thing I knew, I was put on Packing Station 2 and told to get wrapping!” said Laverty.

Massimo Bianconcini - Night of the Jumps final round!

The 2011 season has ended with the event in Sofia, Bulgaria. In front of 12000 people we finally met the World Champion. Javier Villegas from Chile took the first place on a podium and beat the ex World Champion Remi Bizouard. Third on a podium was Jose Miralles. I'm very pleased about the last event. Unfortunately the whole season wasn't so good for me. During the year i had many problems with my health, broken rib stopped me for a while, and i just couldn't give my best. Anyway luckily i got into the final in Sofia, which was a big surprise for me. This are the results of the competition: 1. Remi Bizouard 2. Javier Villegas 3. Maikel Melero 4. Petr Pilat 5. Jose Miralles 6. Massimo Bianconcini 7. Brice Izzo 8. David Rinaldo 9. James Carter 10. Fabian Bauersachs 11. Hannes Ackermann 12. Libor Podmol Now it's time to relax, but not too long, because 5th January everything starts again. I wish everybody merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Three awesome videos!

Apart from Christmas, December can often be a quiet month for action sports. This year however, we've seen some plenty of insane videos to keep us going until Anaheim 1, so sit back and spend ten minutes watching a couple of our favourites below!

We'll get it started with this sick new edit from Fox Racing Clothing's Drew Bezanson. He's been off injured for a while so decided to come back with a bang, producing what's possibly the gnarliest BMX video of the year. Actually, scratch that, we'll put it in our top three videos of 2011, that's a pretty epic accolade so watch and be amazed!



Our second video comes from sunny California. With the Supercross season just around the corner the excitement is building. Villopoto is unquestionably the man to beat, but with Dungey back with Roger DeCoster and Chad Reed getting more factory support from Honda, it looks like a corker.

That's without mentioning a certain James Stewart. James had a tough 2011, with a couple of wins but a lot of dismounts. A lot of that can be attributed to his team, James bought out the team mid-way through the season and couldn't get everything dialed, so he moved across to JGR Yamaha for 2012.

Since then thinks have looked pretty sweet for Bubba, and when he posts sneak peak videos of his training - where he's jumping quads, Villopoto should be a worried man...



Our third favourite video of the week is another corker, with Harry Maine. Harry is without a doubt one of the best BMX'ers we've got in the UK at the moment, and when you can backflip off a 3 foot tall box, that's a title he deserves!

GET DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION AS CODEMASTERS ANNOUNCES DiRT®

Codemasters have revealed a brand new and explosive extension of the DiRT series coming May 2012, name DiRT Showdown.

Set to deliver a brand new dive-in-and-drive rush of speed, style and destruction, today Codemasters® announced that DiRT Showdown, an action packed extension of the award-winning DiRT series, will debut May 2012 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC.

In DiRT Showdown, players will jump into a new world of competitive and combative racing, boosting, tricking and smashing their way to ‘Showdown’ finals on a chaotic tour of motorised mayhem. The first trailer capturing the unique atmosphere and high-octane thrills of DiRT Showdown is now playing at www.dirtgame.com.

It looks sick!

Bianconcini Massimo - GENOA - POLAND NIGHT OF THE JUMPS - BOLOGNA MOTOR SHOW

The last period was very tough for me, having a very big show every weekend is really hard. First one took place in Genoa and it was a big come back of freestyle motocross to this event. Invited riders were representing top world level, only famous names were involved: Blake Williams, Dany Torres, Alex Kolesnikov, Dan Serblin, Vanni Oddera and Mark Monea who performs frontflip, but unfortunatly it wasn't successful. I'm glad i could be a part of such a dream team. You can imagine how great was the show! The following weekend was a turn of Poland to host penultimate round of the World Cup. I'm very pleased with whole event and with what i took home after two days of competiting - i won first place (twice!) in highest jump, first as well in whip contest and the same in speed and style. It was a good and full of trophies weekend. Next weekend i was involved in organising freestyle show at Bologna Motor Show and i was the only italian invited to ride there. I wanted to show my best in my city, i didn't want to let anybody down, i knew people were cheering me on. Thanks to all of this i was thw inner of both days competition and i ended up in front of such riders as Eigo Sato, Matt Buyten, Maikel Melero and Wiley fulmer! Now a week off and then the last round of the world championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. Keep your fingers crossed and remember that you can see it live on your computer!

KTM Launch 2012 AMA Supercross Team

If you're one of us Euro's on this side of the pond, then the KTM domination of recent years is hard to miss. With the best riders, biggest checkbook and widest range, they've dominated GP's across the globe.

That dominance hasn't yet transferred across to the states however, until now. They recently signed Fox Motorcross's 2010 AMA Supercross and Outdoor champion Ryan Dungey, as well as having Marvin Musquin back to full fitness. Add into the mix the 2011 MX2 World Champion Ken Roczen, and you could say they've got one kick ass team!

We're going to continue the KTM loving for a little longer yet, you'll see why if you scroll down and check out these gnarly pictures from the recent team shoot in Cali, quite simply RADILICIOUS!

Electric EVDrive Honda CRF smokes a fossil fueled CRF!

One of the biggest complaints that comes in the direction of Motocross is noise, so we're all for electic bikes. American based EVdrive have just launched an all electric CRF250, which you can get your hands on for the pricey sum of $13,700. It'll last for 110 minutes on a charge, and if you hit play on the video below you'll see it nail exactly the same bike but with a petrol engine!